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Zilog To File For Chapter 11

Posted by Hemos on from the death-of-the-old-timers dept.

Frédéric writes: "The venerable company ZiLOG who was founded in 1974, and who brought us the famous Z80 CPU (used in the Timex/Sinclair ZX80/ZX81, and the Amstrad CPC/PCW computers), is filling for Chapter 11 ... I didn't find the today's news on the web, but found this article at Silicon Strategy and this one at Electronics times, which was written a few days ago to announce it."

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  1. Take off every Zilog by MrFredBloggs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For great sounds

  2. AMD are you watching this? by AB3A · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just remember what business you're in. You've got to do more than just one-up Intel. You have to keep at it while consistently beating them to the punch.

    And all it takes is just one screwup like the Z8k and you're history. Intel is the M$ of the processor market and they're not going to fall on their faces because of a one trick wonder...

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  3. OT: your sig by autopr0n · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Free domain names, $$$-free and restriction-free. Cool aTLDs, that make sense. Built in DynDNS. http://www.freenic.ntwrk

    Just so you know, no one can actualy get to the URL you have posted unless they've already hooked up to your DNS servers.

    Or is it a joke?

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  4. I just bought a brand new Z80 product... by Wraithlyn · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    ...the Sharp Wizard OZ-770PC. It's amazing! 3MB of flash ram, qwerty keyboard, proportional fonts, you can code in raw Z80 assembler for it, plus they have versions of C and BASIC for it. Tons of user written programs on the net. (MyWizard.com and many other sites) Best $100 I ever spent. I much prefer this design to a Palm-style tablet. Here is a good picture.

    And no, I am not affiliated with Sharp or Amazon ;)

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  5. hahaha by autopr0n · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    thats funny dude :P

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